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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Natural Advantage
After a long career in marketing and management with top U.K. and international companies, Alan Heeks (MBA 1976) turned over a new leaf in 1990. He set up the Wessex Foundation, an educational charity whose centerpiece is Magdalen Farm, which consists of a residential... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Mountains for Miracles Update
Three HBS students are climbing the world’s tallest mountains to raise money to fight childhood cancer. Donations may be made at: www.mountainsformiracles.org. View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
PORTER: Health care's zero-sum competition model adds costs and results in severe quality problems. University professor Michael Porter never planned to write a book on health-care reform. In fact, he expected brickbats in response to a coauthored article in the June... View Details
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Meet the Team | Information Technology
post-production and emerging technologies for online video delivery during the early stages of streaming video. Ivan studied computer science and multimedia and served as a teaching assistant in the Advanced Multimedia course at the... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence
“occupational sorting,” with men choosing careers that pay higher wages than women do, labor economists say. For example, women represent only 26 percent of US workers employed in computer and math jobs, according to the Department of... View Details
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
decimated Faber-Castell’s slide rule business in the 1970s, and computer aided design technology undermined the company’s manual drafting tools in the 1980s. With each new threat the Count had to decide whether to adapt to new... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
emerged. Some (relatively rich) emerging countries now exploit the economic advantage of relatively low labor costs to move quickly into the manufacture of high-tech products, such as wireless phones, microprocessors, personal computers, and even View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Supplemental Financial Information II - Annual Report 2020
computes depreciation using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the assets. Depreciation expense for fiscal 2020 decreased by $1 million, or 2.2 percent, from the prior year to $45 million. The School’s... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
be able to do computational prediction for creating a top 20 list of antisense oligos. With those, we can test them against his cell line. So as part of the biopsy, in phase one, we establish a cell line. What that is, is it’s taking... View Details
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/610031-PDF-ENG Revitalizing Dell Jan W. RivkinHarvard Business School Case 710-442 Dell Inc., with its vaunted Direct Model, defined success in the personal computer industry for more than a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
fulfillment). Finally, learning and growth synergies would be achieved by rotating experienced professionals to key jobs in the new companies (key staff rotation), by sharing computer systems (common systems versus plan) and knowledge... View Details
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
research shows that only 45 percent of music files downloaded in the United States come from computers in the U.S. More than 100 countries supply files to the U.S. file-sharing community, and many of these countries do not have strong... View Details
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Dana Hoffmann
family to Monterey Bay, California. “My mom was such a great role model,“ Hoffmann said. “She taught me that you can have it all, have kids, work around the clock, and get everything done.“As far back as the Admitted Students Weekend, Hoffmann... View Details
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
Could we create a computer science program in every school? Hire more social workers to provide the support our students need? That’s the kind of moment we’re living in, and we’ll be in that moment for years. That’s what I’m looking... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
Courtesy Gorick Ng Courtesy Gorick Ng A first-generation college student and professional, Gorick Ng became a self-taught master of trial and error from an early age. When he was 14, his mother—a single parent—lost her job at a sewing-machine factory and Ng, as the... View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
several years as a consultant for Construction Specialties, a manufacturer of specialized architectural products. At the same time, his nephew Mark brought him on board as an investor and marketing consultant in several high-tech startups, including Eicon Technologies,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
by CNET (The Computer Network) in 1996 to start E! Online. Six months later, he was chosen to head the venture, now 100 percent owned by E! "E! Online is a fascinating space to work in," he relates. "It's the convergence of the Internet... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses Authors:Edelman, Benjamin, and Michael Schwarz Abstract We consider market rules for the transfer of IP addresses, numeric identifiers required by all computers connected to the Internet.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
Moderna could create a vaccine for clinical testing in just 60 days. That was three times faster than any vaccine candidate had ever been produced. Fauci didn't believe him. An idea emerged to test Bancel’s record-breaking claims: a mock pandemic. The NIH would provide... View Details